My ipf8300 arrived last week, and I read with interest the threads from Josh and others about moving the beast to a second floor. In my case the second floor involved a twisty set of stairs, and I *really* like my neighbours so I didn't want to hassle them and risk crushing them under this monster.

I thought about it for a bit and then inspiriation struck. I called a piano moving company. The printer is now in my studio! Here are a few photos of how it went:

The printer was attached to a 7ft "piano board", which neatly fit between the slots for the printer stand. They wrapped both ends with moving blankets, and the bottom that we stood the printer up on had extra padding inside too.

Standing the printer up to get the pallet out from under it.

Final adjustments to the many straps holding it onto the piano board and rolling dolly (which was used to get it to the front steps).

Up the stairs. This was the "easy" part, as they'd already cleared the curved steps at the base of the staircase. The hand rail was removed from the wall to make more room. They basically had one guy pulling it up one step at a time via a strap, and the other two below pushing and steadying it.

In the upstairs hall, headed to the print studio. At this point it's basically smooth sailing. We tipped it down onto its belly again, undid all the straps and removed the piano board, and then stood it back up on a moving blanket to drag it into the studio.

Pulling it the last little bit to get it in the studio.

Anyway, it was an adventure. Total cost was $300 ($250 + $50 tip). I am glad I paid them to do it!

Yes, mine is set up. Fortunately I'm on the first floor. We had a dinner party at my place with a dozen or so people, so I grabbed a few of the guys and we moved the printer from the garage to the studio.

I've found out of the box color to be terrible. I'm still amazed that either the printer profiles are that bad, or that there is this much variation in the units. So the sample roll is pretty useless, as soon as I've made my profile, I'll probably have run out of paper!

I'll probably try some 44" canvas and look for a 3rd party profile for it, ready made. If the color is still wrong, then I'll have to make my own, but that has never been a process I've enjoyed or be particularly successful at. Let me know if you (or anyone else) has suggestions for a canvas for this printer I should try.

I've got a roll of the Lyve sitting on the floor waiting to go into the beast. I've used it on the 5100 with success so I figured I'd give it a try on this one. Sure hope I don't have reverse curl issues

I've got a roll of the Lyve sitting on the floor waiting to go into the beast. I've used it on the 5100 with success so I figured I'd give it a try on this one. Sure hope I don't have reverse curl issues

Neil,I remember when we purchased our Epson 11880, and our studio is on 10th floor. And we couldn't take it in the elevator So we also called the piano movers, told the weight of 384 lb and they said -No problem, we're used to grand pianos.After 20 min in the stairs, oh yea they where exhausted

I've found out of the box color to be terrible. I'm still amazed that either the printer profiles are that bad, or that there is this much variation in the units. So the sample roll is pretty useless, as soon as I've made my profile, I'll probably have run out of paper!

Make sure you run the calibration/linearization, you can use the sample roll. IIRC, it is not done automatically during the installation process and is necessary to get good results. I don't use any Canon media so cannot tell how good are the Canon's profiles.

I'll probably try some 44" canvas and look for a 3rd party profile for it, ready made. If the color is still wrong, then I'll have to make my own, but that has never been a process I've enjoyed or be particularly successful at. Let me know if you (or anyone else) has suggestions for a canvas for this printer I should try.

I am using BC Lyve on it. It has slightly smaller gamut compared to my 7900, but OTOH better Dmax, same applies to matte papers in general. Didn't notice any problem with reverse curl.

I'd assumed I hadn't run that--so I gave it a shot (I found Calibrate under Set/Adjust Menu | Adjust). The patterns that printed look familiar, so I do believe I've run that before. Is that also the linearizing step you referred to?

I'd assumed I hadn't run that--so I gave it a shot (I found Calibrate under Set/Adjust Menu | Adjust). The patterns that printed look familiar, so I do believe I've run that before. Is that also the linearizing step you referred to?

Yes, that's it. It prints and measures 12 strips, one for every ink channel.